The corpus record — Latin

obsisto

post one's self before

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Where it lives

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 4 · 2.64/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 2 · 2.63/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 4 · 2.33/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 81 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-sisto — Lewis & Short

ob-sisto, stĭti, stĭtum, 3,

I v. n., to set, place, or post one's self before any thing (class.; syn.: adversor, repugno).

I In gen.: hic obsistam, ne, etc., will station myself, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 62: alicui obviam, to plant one's self in another's way, id. Capt. 4, 2, 11: obsistens obtestansque, Liv. 2, 10, 3: plures abeunti Volumnio obsistere, id. 10, 19.—

II In partic.

A To set one's self against; to oppose, resist, withstand: qui cum obsistere ac defendere conarentur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: omnibus ejus consiliis, id. Cat. 3, 7, 17: dolori, id. Tusc. 2, 12, 28: odiis, id. Off. 2, 7, 23: vitiis, id. ib. 2, 10, 37: visis, to disapprove of, id. Fin. 3, 9, 31: opinionibus, id. Ac. 2, 34, 108. —With inf.: obstitit Oceanus in se simul atque in Herculem inquiri, opposes, forbids, Tac. G. 34.—With ne: Histiaeus Miletus ne res conficeretur obstitit, Nep. Milt. 3, 5: obstitisti, ne ex Italiā transire in Siciliam fugitivorum copiae possent, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 2, § 5.—With quominus: quae si cui obstitit, quominus referret gratiam, etc., Sen. Ben. 5, 5, 3.—Impers. pass.: magnitudine animi facile posset repugnari obsistique fortunae, Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 17.—

B obstĭ-tus, a, um, P. a.

1 Over against, opposite: luna radios solis obstiti vel adversi usurpat, App. de Deo Socr. p. 42.—

2 Lit., opposing, inimical; hence, in augury, struck by lightning: obstitum Cloatius et Aelius Stilo esse aiunt violatum attactumque de caelo. Cincius quom qui deo deaeque obstiterit id est qui viderit, quod videri nefas esset, Paul. ex Fest. p. 193 Müll.: FVLGVRA ATQVE OBSTITA PIANTO, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 21.

In the wild

obsistere Cicero, De Officiis 2.23.p1
obsistit Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.981
obsistere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.227
obsistebant Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p7
obsisteret Tacitus, Historiae 4.21
obsistere Cicero, De Lege Agraria 3.3

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